{"id":31093,"date":"2023-03-01T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?p=31093"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:45:11","slug":"god-so-loved-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/god-so-loved-the-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;God so loved the world\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&amp;#8216;God so loved the world\u2026\u2019\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-01T10:42:56+11:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT11M26S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"[et_pb_section fb_built=&quot;1&quot; _builder_version=&quot;3.22&quot;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&quot;3.25&quot; background_size=&quot;initial&quot; background_position=&quot;top_left&quot; background_repeat=&quot;repeat&quot; custom_padding=&quot;0px||0px|||&quot;][et_pb_column type=&quot;4_4&quot; _builder_version=&quot;3.25&quot; c...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/God-So-Loved-the-World.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"10.5\" \/><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fword_on_wednesday%2FGod-So-Loved-the-World.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fanglicanconnection.com%2Fgod-so-loved-the-world-2%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/God-So-Loved-the-World.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/?powerpress_pinw=31093-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/content.blubrry.com\/word_on_wednesday\/God-So-Loved-the-World.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"God-So-Loved-the-World.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 11:26 &#8212; 10.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3oaVMRpfARBkj4dyfEZcC0\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanconnection.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Read&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In today\u2019s world, God is not so much dead as cancelled. He is not to be spoken about. If he does exist, there\u2019s nothing good to say about him: he is grim and uncaring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">How different this is from what the Bible actually says about God. Consider the most well- known words in the Bible: <i>For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life<\/i> (John 3:16).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They occur in the context of a conversation Jesus had with Nicodemus, a Jewish leader who had come to see him late at night. Nicodemus was one of the thousands who had been impressed and he wanted to meet Jesus for a personal chat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jesus\u2019 rise to stardom had happened very quickly and his popularity was enormous. He said the most amazing things and backed them up with the most extraordinary actions: he healed the sick, raised the dead to life, and overcame the powers of evil. No matter what confronted him, he was always in control. His person and presence had so great an impact that he is also mentioned by other historians of that era \u2013 such as Tacitus and Josephus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>God\u2019s love<\/b>. The Bible tells us that God\u2019s essential nature is love. In Psalm 145:8-9 we read: <i>The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The theme of the love of God permeates both the Old and New Testaments. What is more, we find that his love is not sparked by something attractive about us. God loves because love is at the very heart of his being.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now it\u2019s important to note that our English word \u2018love\u2019 translates four Greek words (the language in which the New Testament was written). One word is <i>eros<\/i>, from which we get our word <i>erotic<\/i>. It\u2019s a word associated with intense emotional feeling. It\u2019s a word that pagan religions have long used in part as a reference to the mystical experience of the supernatural. One form of yoga in Hinduism exploits sexual intercourse as a technique for achieving spiritual enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But nowhere does the New Testament use the word <i>eros.<\/i> It uses a rare word in the original Greek: <i>agape<\/i>. There are no rapturous, mystical experiences associated with <i>agape<\/i>. Rather,\u00a0<i>agape<\/i> is committed to serve the best interests of the ones who are loved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Furthermore, John tells us, <i>God so loved the world<\/i> that he reaches out to all men and women. This is breath-taking. God could have shut humanity down at the moment of their rebellion. We deserved nothing less. But God in his love had a bigger and very costly plan in mind that would benefit a world that rejected him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>God\u2019s gift<\/b>. He <i>gave us his Son\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">John is not saying that God loved world <i>enough<\/i> to give his Son. Rather, it was <b><i>out of God\u2019s love<\/i><\/b> for the world that he gave his Son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These words are amongst the most famous in the Bible. Consider what they say about Jesus. He is \u2018the one who came down from heaven, the one and only Son of God\u2019 (John 1:14).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Being from God, the Son personally reveals to us what God is like. As Jesus says later, <i>\u201cI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life\u201d<\/i> (John 8:12). More than ever we need to hear him and respond to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But significantly, God didn\u2019t give his Son just to shine his light into a dark and troubled world. God so loved the world that he gave his Son to rescue it. The gift would come to its climax and fulfillment when the Son was crucified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">t was with Jesus\u2019 death that we discover the immeasurable depth of God\u2019s love. For it was through Jesus\u2019 voluntary, sacrificial death that God opened the door once and for all whereby he could forgive men and women who had shown no love for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>God\u2019s offer<\/b>. John tells us of the offer that God holds out: <i>Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Eternal life<\/i> is contrasted with <i>perishing<\/i>. John doesn\u2019t tell us what <i>perishing<\/i> is but he does tell us that it will be a most unwelcome experience. Elsewhere we learn, mainly through Jesus\u2019 own teaching, that it is a very serious thing to refuse God\u2019s gift. <i>Perishing<\/i> won\u2019t mean perpetually partying with friends. Everything that is good, beautiful, and true will be lost. T.S. Elliot put it this way, <i>Hell is oneself. Hell is alone\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Life eternal will be a life of perfection and beauty, where there will be no more pain or suffering, self-absorption or injustice. It will be fullness of joy in the glory of the Lord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>God\u2019s beneficiaries<\/b>. John tells us who will benefit: <i>Whoever believes in the Son\u2026<\/i> We can\u2019t achieve <i>eternal life<\/i> by our own efforts or merits. We are totally dependent on God\u2019s generous gift. To turn to Jesus, the Son of God and to trust him, is the key to our benefiting from God\u2019s precious gift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In our natural state we don\u2019t want to accept God\u2019s offer because we know it would mean a radical lifestyle change. And we don\u2019t want to change. We would rather stay in the dark than move into the light and admit what we are really like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve wondered how long the conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus recorded in John chapter 3, lasted. Nicodemus had arrived late at night. Could it be that as he left there were the first glimmerings of dawn on the horizon? And as he saw the rising sun, did he smile with joy at the dawn of a new day, or did he turn his eyes back upon the darkness of the night?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is the choice that confronts you and me, and indeed the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>A prayer<\/i><\/b>. Almighty God, we ask you to look on the heartfelt desires of your servants, and stretch forth the right hand of your power to be our defense against all our enemies; through Jesus Christ our Lord. <b>Amen.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;40px|||||&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a9 John G. 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